United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the sea branch of the United States Armed Forces.

Fiction

Dreamwave Transformers/G.I. Joe comics

The U.S.S. Hama was a battleship that was presumably destroyed Cobra and the Decepticons in 1939. After its destruction, a map of the Fera Islands, as well as the emblems of the Decepticons and Cobra, were carved into a fragment of its hull by Starscream and Destro. The fragment ended up at Sumbergh RAF Base on the Shetland Islands, where it directed the nascent G.I. Joe team to the hiding place of the Autobots.

Live-action Transformers movies

Transformers (2007) film

Shortly after the United States learned of the devastating attack on the SOCCENT Forward Operations Base in Qatar, the President dispatched battle groups to the Arabian Gulf and the Yellow Sea, not knowing which of their potential enemies had attacked them. Later, when Secretary of Defense John Keller realised that no foreign power on Earth was responsible for the events in Qatar, he ordered the battle groups to turn their ships around and return to US territory immediately.

After the defeat of the Decepticons in Mission City, the Navy dumped the dead aliens into the Atlantic Ocean's Laurentian Abyss. Transformers (2007)

U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)

The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was the fifth Nimitz-class supercarrier in the US Navy. She was the second Navy ship named after former president Abraham Lincoln.

The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln's battle group was one of those that were sent regional hot spots shortly after the attack on SOCCENT Qatar. They returned to United States territorial waters after the Pentagon learned that no other nation was responsible for the attack. Transformers (2007)

Footage of the carrier groups was unaltered footage of modern carrier groups that had been filmed for one of Michael Bay's previous films, Pearl Harbor.

U.S.S. Shoup (DDG-86)

The U.S.S. Shoup was an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the US Navy. The ship was named for General David M. Shoup (1904–1983), the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps.

When the US Government decided to dispose of the Decepticon remains, the U.S.S. Shoup was tasked with dumping Megatron and Blackout's bodies into the Laurentian Abyss. Transformers (2007)

The Veiled Threat prequel novel

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Revenge of the Fallen (film)

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U.S.S. John C. Stennis (CVN-74)

The U.S.S. John C. Stennis was the seventh Nimitz-class supercarrier in the US Navy, named for Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi.

The John C. Stennis was destroyed by Decepticon transition forms hurtling down from space. Revenge of the Fallen (film)

Footage for the transition forms flying down towards the carrier group was once again the unaltered footage of the modern U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln shot for Pearl Harbor. One can tell by the identical formation and disposition of the ships in the group (albeit seen from a different angle) to those in the overhead fleet shot from the 2007 Transformers movie. However, when the transition forms crash into the carrier, the footage used is of the John C. Stennis, as the carrier only carries aircraft currently serving in the US Navy, and the Stennis's hull number of 74 can be clearly seen as the ship sinks.

Trivia

• The some of the members of Captain Lennox's Ranger team (Luis Echagarruga, Patrick Mulderrig, Brian Shehan and Michael Trisler) are actually currently serving members of the US Navy SEALs, while military advisor Harry Humpries was a former Navy SEAL. They assisted the actors in their three days of basic training at Fort Irwin, in California as seen in the Transformers DVD segment titled "I Fight Giant Robots".

External links

• United States Navy on the Wikipedia